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Classic Comics Puzzles Antelope Valley Press, Thursday, June 24, 2021 D3 PUZZLES SUDOKU 6-24-21 outlined boxes, called cages, must O Each row and each column must combine using the given operation contain the numbers 1 through 4 (in any order) to produce the target (easy) or 1 through 6 (challenging) numbers in the top-left corners. without repeating. O Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with O The numbers within the heavily the number in the top-left corner. is a registered trademark of ® KenKen KenKen Puzzle LLC. ©2021 Puzzle LLC. All rights reserved. Dist. by Andrews McMeel Syndication. www.kenken.com CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’ll SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): YOUR HOROSCOPE attract a lot of attention if you pursue an Pay attention to the reaction and response innovative path when it comes to work and you receive from partners and those close THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2021 professional gain. Do what’s right, and you to you. Consider the best way to keep the Take on challenges, and apply intelli- will succeed. peace without jeopardizing your plans. gence and creativity. You’ll zigzag your way LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Emotional CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): to victory throughout the year. Making a matters will escalate if you or someone isn’t Go over the changes you want to make at grand presentation out of everything you do honest about a legal, financial or health home before you begin, and you’ll spare will add a positive flavor. issue. Request transparency from anyone yourself unnecessary redos. Show some- ARIES (March 21-April 19): Refuse you feel may not be disclosing information. one you love what you plan to do to bring to let anyone push you into an emotional VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Listen you closer together. frenzy based on misinformation or assump- and find out all you can rather than offer- AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): tions. Trust in your ability to get to the bot- ing too much about your personal life and Concentrate on what’s important to you, tom of any situation you face. beliefs. Put more energy into physical fit- and put your energy where it counts most. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Expand ness, nutrition and overall health. How you deal with authority figures, rules your search, and you’ll discover what’s LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Focus on and regulations will determine how well required to reach your goal. Emotional what’s essential, doable and will help you you do. spending on luxury items is discouraged. avoid an emotional spat with a friend or PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Pay attention to what’s essential. relative. Don’t take on a task that will put Pay attention to what others are doing. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Put your you at risk. Someone will try to undermine you if given energy behind the change that will make SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Check a chance. Put more thought and effort into your life less stressful and more in tune out the possibility of changing your living the way you present who you are and what with what brings you joy. Take responsibil- arrangements to suit your budget or reflect you can do. ity for your happiness. what you want to pursue. By Eugenia Last CLASSIC COMICS NEW YORK TIMES Edited by ZIGGY By Tom Wilson HERMAN By Jim Unger Will Shortz DAILY CROSSWORD No. 0520 ACROSS 1 Seat of Oklahoma’s Garfield County 5 Clammy 10 Saddle-making tools 14 One of three at the start of a Pac-Man game 15 Tea party crasher of fiction 16 Person of outstand- ing importance 17 Ancient pyramid builders 18 Doofus 19 Poet ___ Wheeler BEETLE BAILEY By Mort Walker Wilcox 20 Ohm, Hertz and Newton 22 87-octane gas 24 Get further mileage from 25 Dunderhead 27 Leave nothing behind? 28 Heartbeat 29 With 38-Across, Emmy-winning PUZZLE BY TRENTON CHARLSON HBO drama whose ARLO & JANIS By Jimmy Johnson name suggests this 47 Covert Cold War deal 65 Muckraking journalist 13 Wolfs (down) puzzle’s theme 49 Like areas around Jacob 21 “What is it?” 32 Some remote power waterfalls 66 “___ es!” (Spanish 23 Prime meridian std. sources 50 Actress Donovan of for “That’s it!”) 26 West Coast law 33 Baby food “Clueless” 67 50-denomination coin force, for short 35 Grove 51 ___ Mawr College whose reverse side 30 Post-op stop 36 Range of sizes, 53 Sordid shows the Fatima 31 Poetic adverb in brief 55 Minestrone Masumeh Shrine 34 Game show loser’s 37 ___Vista, early ingredient prize search engine 58 Bit of swamp flora DOWN 36 Movable aerial 1 Brand that many 38 See 29-Across 60 The 500s, in the platform people stick with 39 Text back and Dewey Decimal 37 Nabokov’s longest 2 She played Nicole forth, say System: Abbr. novel By Thaves Chapman on “Fame” FRANK & ERNEST 41 Openly condemn 61 It’s bigger than 40 Bug 3 “... know what I’m 43 Apple found on Apple a family 42 Jr. and sr. Music 62 Cry of frustration saying?” 4 ___ list 43 “In case it’s of 44 What Yggdrasil of 63 French article interest ...” Norse mythology is 64 Cathedral area 5 Seriously hurt 6 Germanic language 45 Uranians, e.g. ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: of the 8th-12th 46 Drill command centuries 47 Like havarti or 7 Jr.’s son, maybe Muenster 8 Nine-time Oscar 48 Wield nominee for Best 51 Scouts ___, rebrand- Director ed name since ’19 9 Rodin’s thinker? 52 Bring up B.C. By Mastroianni & Hart 10 Unalaska inhabitant 54 Super-duper 11 Who said “Presidents 56 Fervency come and go, but the 57 Yossarian’s tentmate Supreme Court goes in “Catch-22” on forever” 59 Sounds of 12 Entertainer once puzzlement known as the Queen 61 Trireme of Las Vegas implement Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay..
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